Kybernetes: Volume 21 Issue 4

The Illusion that Man Constructs Reality — A Retrograde Trend in the Cybernetical Movement

P.R. Masani

Based primarily on the belief that it is man who constructs reality, a trend has grown in recent years to regard cybernetics as superseding the scientific methodology. Shows the…

Fixed Points and Interacting Subjects

Robert Vallée

Presents the fixed‐point paradigm and its aspects from vector algebra to dynamical systems, not forgetting eigenbehaviours. Then considers the problem of subjects (and objects) in…

Making Alphabet Soup: Blending VSM, STS and TQM

Allenna Leonard

Many opportunities exist to combine different models in the cybernetics and systems field to assist groups and organizations to be more effective. Brings together three models…

More Thoughts on Continuity and Logic

Alex M. Andrew

In the current debate on appropriate representations of uncertainty, it is usual to assume a finite set of events to be discriminated. A similar bias is apparent in much…

Agonistic Antagonistic Systemics: An Introduction To Bilateral — and Paradoxically Unilateral — Strategies

E. Bernard‐Weil

Agonistic antagonistic general system theory and praxis were born in the medical field, but may be defined now from an epistemological and biomathematical point of view, and are…

Fuzzy Identification of Systems: A New Cybernetic Method

Gh.M. Negoita, V.V. Canciu

A mathematical tool for the fuzzy identification of a system is presented. This hybrid mathematical method combines the fuzzy description of input space and the description of…

Informational Observation Theory: An Extension to Two Continuous Sets of Events

Colette Padet

An analysis is proposed of the consequences of the limitations inherent in observation processes PA and PB on the joint, marginal and conditional entropies of two continuous sets A…